Intel Core i7-10700K vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i7-10700K vs Core i5-13500H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-10700K performs better than the Core i5-13500H. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-10700K that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500H. Also, the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. The Core i5-13500H also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.